Partner at Blackbird Ventures
View Live Interactive Profile →Phoebe Harrop is a Partner at Blackbird based in Auckland, New Zealand. Her Blackbird profile states that she grew up in New Plymouth, studied Law and Spanish at the University of Otago, began her career as a consultant at Bain & Company in Melbourne and then London, and then spent three years in the investment team at Generation, a sustainability-focused growth equity fund, working between London and San Francisco, before joining Blackbird's Aotearoa team. She names Excellent, ThroughLine and Carepatron as companies whose founders she backs. Blackbird's April 2024 post names her as taking over leadership of Blackbird Aotearoa. The firm's 25 August 2026 New Zealand media release quotes her as Phoebe Harrop Meadows, Partner at Blackbird. No board seat is recorded. Blackbird's investment announcement posts, twenty-four of which were read on 7 September 2026, name the authoring investor but contain no sentence appointing anyone to a portfolio company board, and no portfolio company board page naming this person was found.